Genesis 17:6
Good News Translation
I will give you many descendants, and some of them will be kings. You will have so many descendants that they will become nations.

New Revised Standard Version
I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you.

Contemporary English Version
I will give you a lot of descendants, and they will become great nations. Some of them will even be kings.

New American Bible
I will make you exceedingly fertile; I will make nations of you; kings will stem from you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will make thee increase exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I will make thee increase exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

nations.

Genesis 17:4,20 And God said to him: I am, and my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. . . .

Genesis 35:11 And said to him: I am God almighty, increase thou and be multiplied. Nations and peoples of nations shall be from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.

kings.

Genesis 17:16 And I will bless her, and of her I will give thee a son, whom I will bless, and he shall become nations, and kings of people shall spring from him.

Genesis 36:31 And the kings that ruled in the land of Edom, before the children of Israel had a king, were these:

*etc:

Ezra 4:20 For there have been powerful kings in Jerusalem, who have had dominion over all the country that is beyond the river: and have received tribute, and toll and revenues.

Matthew 1:6 And Jesse begot David the king. And David the king begot Solomon, of her that had been the wife of Urias.

*etc:

Context
The Renaming of Abraham
5Neither shall thy name be called any more Abram: but thou shalt be called Abraham: because I have made thee a father of many nations. 6And I will make thee increase exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.…
Cross References
Genesis 17:16
And I will bless her, and of her I will give thee a son, whom I will bless, and he shall become nations, and kings of people shall spring from him.

Genesis 26:22
Going forward from thence, he digged another well, for which they contended not; therefore he called the name thereof, Latitude, saying: Now hath the Lord given us room, and made us to increase upon the earth.

Genesis 28:3
And God almighty bless thee, and make thee to increase and multiply thee: that thou mayst be a multitude of people.

Genesis 35:11
And said to him: I am God almighty, increase thou and be multiplied. Nations and peoples of nations shall be from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.

Genesis 36:31
And the kings that ruled in the land of Edom, before the children of Israel had a king, were these:

Genesis 41:52
And he named the second Ephraim, saying: God hath made me to grow in the land of my poverty.

Genesis 47:27
So Israel dwelt in Egypt, that is, in the land of Gessen, and possessed it; and grew, and was multiplied exceedingly.

Leviticus 26:9
I will look on you, and make you increase: you shall be multiplied, and I will establish my covenant with you.

Genesis 17:5
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